one-cold

English

Etymology

one +‎ cold

Noun

one-cold (plural one-colds)

1. (electronics, computer science) A set of bits with only a single low (0) bit, with the remaining bits high (1).

   Antonym: one-hot

   • 2015, Ronald W. Mehler, Digital Integrated Circuit Design Using Verilog and Systemverilog, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 410:

     One-cold encoding has the same advantages and disadvantages as one-hot. The difference is that the active bit is logic zero rather than logic one. One-cold encoding is most useful for systems that have active-low enable signals.